Ku Man had not expected that the famous Dharma treasure of the Frost Domain, the Ice Spirit Treasure, would be destroyed by Lamulan.
"Ku Man, from now on, the entire continent and even the entire world will be ruled by the Lamu Tribe. Hahaha …"
Looking at Ku Man's shocked expression, La Mulan said and laughed crazily again.
"Hmph!"
Ku Man snorted in disdain at Lamulan's arrogance.
In his opinion, Lamulan had really gone mad.
The three Sacred Halls had existed in this world for countless years and had a strong foundation. Even a god would not dare to say such a thing!
Lamulan said when she saw Ku Man's disdainful expression. "This natural talisman array is rooted in the entire continent and deep in the Star Sea. It is constantly absorbing the energy of this continent and the Star Sea. Can your Sacred Hall defeat such a force?"
Ku Man and Black Talisman Lord were both shocked when they heard Lamulan's words.
Ku Man was shocked while Black Talisman Lord was extremely regretful. If what Lamulan said was true, then the Lamu Clan would definitely become the new ruler of this continent in the future. It was unwise to become enemies with the Lamu Clan at this moment.
Xichen Youyou's plan was to rely on the powerful forces of this world to continuously strengthen themselves and then replace them …
Although Black Talisman Lord had not been in this world for long, he knew that they had an advantage over the cultivators of this world.
Black Talisman Lord turned to look at Yang Tian.
Yang Tian was frowning and looking at the blue sphere. He seemed to be deep in thought. No one knew what he was thinking.
"Talisman Lord, it's an honor to meet you."
Black Talisman Lord had just shifted his gaze away from Yang Tian when Yang Tian suddenly spoke.
Talisman Lord?
Black Talisman Lord was stunned when he heard this.
Black Talisman Lord was a cultivator of talisman arts. In his original world, the Talisman Lord was a god-like existence.
When he heard Yang Tian say the words "Talisman Lord", he could not control his emotions no matter what.
The Rune Lord's creation of a rune programmed lifeform was simply a myth. No matter how hard the descendants tried, they did not know how he did it.
Even the Black Talisman Lord had once tried to use runes to create a rune program with intelligence. However, he had wasted a lot of time and had no clue at all.
In his original world, the Talisman Master had practically become the 'ancestor' of all rune cultivators.
Ku Man clearly knew about the legend of the Talisman Master in the Lamu Tribe. It was said that the Talisman Master was a cultivator who used runes to the extreme. He was incomparably powerful, comparable to a god.
At that time, if it hadn't suddenly disappeared, there might have been a fourth Shrine on the continent by now.
"Hahaha …"
As soon as Yang Tian finished speaking, Lamulan burst out laughing.
The corners of Yang Tian's mouth curled up as he thought to himself, 'I guessed it right.'
The current Lamulan was no longer the Lamulan of the past.
Inside Lamulan's body was the Talisman Lord's consciousness.
After 'Lamulan' finished laughing, she turned her head and looked at Yang Tian. "I didn't expect a little kid like you to see through me.
You and I came from the same place, right? "
The Talisman Master's question was undoubtedly a confirmation of Yang Tian's guess.
Yang Tian nodded and pointed at the Black Talisman Lord. "Him too."
The Black Talisman Lord nodded at the Talisman Master.
"Talisman Master, I really want to know how you did it." Yang Tian rolled his eyes and asked curiously.
The Talisman Master knew what Yang Tian was asking. Yang Tian had originally thought that the Talisman Master wouldn't answer. Unexpectedly, when Yang Tian asked this question, the Talisman Master replied, "Muyi, you may not know this, but before I started cultivating, I was an ordinary technician. I was a programmer who wrote virtual games."
When he heard the word 'programmer,' Yang Tian felt a sense of familiarity.
The Talisman Master continued. "I didn't have any talent for cultivation. After a few hundred years, I still hadn't reached the Star Grade.
Thus, I chose to cultivate runes, hoping to use the power of runes to change my situation.
However, I still didn't have any talent for runes … "
As he said this, the Talisman Master fell silent. Under his control, a look of reminiscence appeared on Lamulan's face.
That period of time must have been very difficult for the Talisman Master.
Yang Tian had come from that world. Although his cultivation had been very smooth, he knew that most cultivators didn't have it easy.
"I originally wanted to give up …" Suddenly, the Talisman Master spoke again. "In my despair, I wanted to give up on cultivation, return to my hometown, and live an ordinary life.
At that moment, a strange idea appeared in my mind.
I thought that if I could use runes to write an intelligent program, I would be able to obtain rune energy indirectly with the help of this program.
After I had this idea, I started to try it out. "
"How is that possible …"
The Black Talisman Lord couldn't help but mutter to himself.
The Black Talisman Lord had tried this before, but he hadn't even found the right way to do it.
The Talisman Master chuckled. "Nothing is impossible in this world.
I was originally a programmer who wrote programs using numbers, so I naturally understand better than you how intelligent programs are created.
You didn't succeed because you didn't understand the principle behind intelligent programs. "
"Impossible!"
The Black Talisman Lord said. "In order to create a rune program like you, I studied for ten years."
"Hehehe …"
The Talisman Master laughed after the Black Talisman Lord finished speaking.
The Black Talisman Lord frowned when he saw the Talisman Master laughing.
Whether it was Yang Tian, the Talisman Master, or the Black Talisman Lord, they were all conversing in the language of this world. Ku Man could hear them clearly.
In this world, intelligent programs formed by numbers belonged to the mechanical race. Ku Man and Huihe Miaomiao didn't know much about them, so they were confused.
The Talisman Master finished laughing and said, "It's only been ten years. Everyone has their own specialization. You didn't even study intelligent programs thoroughly.
If I'm not wrong, you must have used a large amount of complicated runes to create a rune program, right? "
"That's right!"
The Black Talisman Lord nodded. "The more complicated the rune, the more information it contains. For example, a long paragraph written with simple runes can be replaced with a complicated rune.
What's wrong with that? "
The Talisman Master said, "Actually, you think of runes as too complicated.
It's actually very simple. The process of its creation is just like the life in this world. At first, it's just a small cell. Then, it evolves into a more advanced and complicated life form. As long as it continues to evolve, it will become more and more advanced. There's no end to it. "
The Black Talisman Lord said, "Of course, I've tried this method before, but I still failed."
The Talisman Master laughed. "Do you want to know how I did it?"
"Yes!" The Black Talisman Lord nodded.
Yang Tian naturally wanted to know as well. His eyes widened when he heard the Talisman Master's words.
The Talisman Master said, "After countless attempts and failures, I found a representative rune from each type of rune. The total number doesn't exceed a hundred.
I used less than a hundred runes to create a rune program. Hehe!
Electronic programs need a hardware environment to run. Rune programs are different from electronic programs. Naturally, they need a unique environment to run. "
When Black Talisman Lord heard Talisman Lord's words, an excited expression appeared on his face.
The Talisman Master's words made the Black Talisman Lord feel enlightened.
Rune programs were different from numeric programs. Their operating environments were definitely different.
Yang Tian thought to himself, "When the Black Talisman Lord wanted to create a rune program, did he use the hardware of a digital program to run the rune program?
That's too ridiculous. "
The Talisman Master ignored the Black Talisman Lord's excitement and said, "The first thing I thought of was rune arrays.
However, I wasn't proficient in runes. How could I create a rune array that would allow the rune program to run? "
"Hehehe …"
The Talisman Master chuckled again. He seemed very pleased with himself.
"How did you do it?"
The Black Talisman Lord asked impatiently. He really wanted to know the result.
However, the Talisman Master did not answer the Black Talisman Lord's question for a long time.
Then, Yang Tian said, "I know."
"You know?"
The Talisman Master controlled Lamulan's body and turned to look at Yang Tian. He asked with a smile.
Yang Tian smiled and said, "I was the one who broke the seal you set outside. Of course I know."
"Then tell me." The Talisman Master said.
Yang Tian said, "You found a natural rune array!"
"Hahaha … That's right!" The Talisman Master laughed and said, "I spent a hundred years and went through many hardships to find a natural rune array.
Over there, I spent another one hundred years carving runes, carving runes on rocks and drawing runes in the air with rune brushes … In the past one hundred years, all the runes I carved and drew in the air with rune brushes were the dozens of typical runes.
I don't even know how I persevered during that time. My perseverance was not in vain. During this process, the natural rune array's energy was absorbed by the runes I carved. They actually condensed into pure rune energy bodies. This was an unexpected gain! "
Yang Tian continued, "Therefore, you carved a simple rune array on these rune energy bodies.
Countless of these rune arrays collided with each other in the natural rune array, resulting in strange changes … "
Black Talisman Lord was very surprised and envious when Yang Tian described it.
He was not surprised by the Talisman Master's genius idea, but by his perseverance.
The 'year' that the Talisman Master mentioned was the time it took for the Ketla Star to orbit around a fixed star.
If it were him, he would not have been able to persevere for so long even if he had thought of this method.
Actually, this was not strange.
Those who were talented and accomplished in rune dao had superior lives. How could they have persevered for so long?
When they cultivated rune dao, they paid more attention to their own realm.
Cultivators who were not talented in rune dao, even if their perseverance was better than the Talisman Master's, would not 'dream' of being able to create rune programs like the Talisman Master.
In the process of creating rune programs, the Talisman Master was like a clumsy creator. He persevered and finally received his reward.
Black Talisman Lord was envious that Yang Tian had seen the seal set by the Talisman Master. He thought that if he had encountered the seal, he would probably have been able to deduce the process of the Talisman Master's creation of rune programs, just like Yang Tian.
Black Talisman Lord was very conceited when it came to rune dao. He did not expect that the Lamu tribe would not be able to understand the mystery behind the seal after guarding it for so long.
After Yang Tian finished speaking, the Talisman Master said, "Your guess is roughly the same. It's just that the details are slightly different.
Actually, if I were to do it again, I am not confident that I would succeed. "
"Then why did you destroy the rune programs later on?" Yang Tian asked again.
This was something that Yang Tian could not understand.
The Talisman Master said, "After I succeeded, I came to this world and accidentally encountered the machine race.
My existence was a threat to their survival.
They implanted a strange digital lifeform in my body … "
After the Talisman Master finished speaking, Yang Tian roughly understood the entire process.
The Talisman Master was overconfident and came to this world to be plotted against by the machine race.
On the one hand, the machine race wanted to obtain the rune programs from the Talisman Master. On the other hand, they wanted to kill the Talisman Master.
The Talisman Master had no choice but to return to his original world. Then, the Talisman Master, who was controlled by the digital lifeform, had no choice but to destroy his physical body and the rune programs he had created.
This also explained why there were so many rune arrays in the machine race.
The machine race's research on runes was not inferior to human cultivators'.
The Talisman Master made it sound simple, but the process must have been extremely complicated.
Besides the machine race, there was also the vague shadow of the Realm Protector.
At the thought of the Realm Protector, Yang Tian's mind was filled with the mysterious black-robed elder who was standing on a green bird.
Yang Tian could not help but think that what he had seen and heard after coming to this world might only be the tip of the iceberg.
Besides the vast continent, there was an even more vast sea of stars …
"Little kid, you are very smart. How about becoming my disciple?"
The Talisman Master suddenly said while everyone was silent due to shock.
Yang Tian came to his senses and did not answer the question. Instead, he smiled and said, "Talisman Master, don't you want to know how I broke the seal?"
The Talisman Master said, "It has been too long. The seal's power is less than one ten-thousandth of its original power. It is not difficult to break it."
The Talisman Master's answer put Yang Tian at ease.
He asked this because he wanted to test whether the Talisman Master had discovered the existence of the strange program.
The strange program now was no longer the rune program that had followed the Talisman Master back then.
"Your physical body has been destroyed. How did you come here?" Black Talisman Lord looked at the blue sphere and asked curiously.
"This is my secret!" The Talisman Master said.
Yang Tian could tell that the Talisman Master was probably going to create a new body from the "blood fetus" just like him. This concerned the Talisman Master's life and death, so the Talisman Master naturally would not answer.
The silent Talisman Master emitted a strange rune energy fluctuation from his body.
The energy was very weak. Neither Black Talisman Lord nor Yang Tian noticed it. But the strange program did.
After being reminded by the strange program, Yang Tian was ready to make his move.
While the Talisman Master was very powerful, Yang Tian did not want him to appear in this world again.
The reason why the Talisman Master was so "patient" with Yang Tian and Black Talisman Lord was because he was trying to buy time.
The first one to react was Ku Man. She had been listening from the side. Because she was not well-versed in runes, she was not as surprised as Yang Tian and Black Talisman Lord.
After the battle just now, Ku Man had realized that if she stayed here any longer, she might not be able to leave this place alive. While she had a bad temper, she was not an idiot.
In a flash, Ku Man rushed toward the entrance of the cave.
PENG!
But to her surprise, the entrance had been sealed by an invisible rune energy. Ku Man crashed into the rune energy and was sent flying back.
"Hahaha … All of you will die! All of you will die!"
At this time, Lamulan began to laugh again and kept on shouting.
Lamulan began to go berserk again.
Yang Tian knew that this was because the Talisman Master had removed his control over Lamulan's body. The rune energy wave just now was created when the Talisman Master left Lamulan's body.
Yang Tian now understood that not only was the Talisman Master absorbing a large amount of energy, he was also fusing with the rune energy.
If he succeeded, then the Talisman Master would be able to control the rune energy at will. With just a thought, he could set up any rune array that he wanted.
The reason why Lamulan was shouting that she wanted to kill everyone here was probably because of the Talisman Master's influence.
Because Yang Tian and the others had interfered with the Talisman Master's rebirth. When the Talisman Master came out from the blue sphere, the first thing he would do was to kill them.
That was why Yang Tian wanted to destroy the Talisman Master.
The Talisman Master was buying time, and so was Yang Tian. Because in order to stop the Talisman Master, he needed the help of the strange program. And the strange program needed time to destroy the blue sphere.
"Talisman Master … Talisman Master …"
"Hahaha …"
Everything was ready. Yang Tian called out the Talisman Master's name loudly.
However, what answered him was Lamulan's maniacal laughter.
The Talisman Master's consciousness had retreated into the blue sphere.
"Crack!"
Suddenly, the blue sphere's light dimmed, and there was the sound of a shell breaking.
At the same time, a crack appeared on the smooth surface of the blue sphere.
They could not wait any longer. If they waited for the Talisman Master to break out of the shell, then it would be over.
"Go!"
Yang Tian shouted.
The strange program flew out from Yang Tian's collar and rushed toward the blue sphere. In the blink of an eye, it surrounded the blue sphere and Lamulan.
Under the control of the strange program, countless tiny particles formed two circles in the shape of a cross and revolved around the blue sphere at high speed.
During this process, powerful rune energy was emitted from the two circles.
Seeing this, Yang Tian could not help but clench his fists.
Success or failure depended on the strange program. Of course, it also needed the cooperation of the Little Blue Dragon …
The Talisman Master was about to break out of the shell. In the blue sphere, his new body, which was made of rune energy, had already taken shape. He only needed one more step to break out of the shell.
However, he could not take this crucial step no matter how hard he tried.
At this time, the strange program had already cut off the external supply of rune energy to the Talisman Master. This blue sphere was where the Talisman Master built his body. At the same time, it was also where he was bound.